[eng] The aim of this work is to provide an experimental platform of a Single-Delta
Bridge-Cell based STATCOM, and get familiar with its functions as follows:
1. Introduction to STATCOMs and their possible applications; ...[+]

[eng] The aim of this work is to provide an experimental platform of a Single-Delta
Bridge-Cell based STATCOM, and get familiar with its functions as follows:
1. Introduction to STATCOMs and their possible applications; get familiar to
the state-of-the-art.
2. Construction and simulation of a SDBC model.
3. Hardware designing of the 3 basic parts: inverter submodule, measurement
circuitry, and control board.
4. Testing the boards.
According to the proposed objectives, this thesis is divided into 3 main chapters.
Chapter 2 begins with introducing the Modular Multilevel Cascade Converter
family, presenting a brief summary of each one of the di erent topologies. Af-
terwards it is described the operation principle of a Single Delta Bridge Cell;
and nally it is purposed a mathematical model of the converter, and a MatLAB
Simulink model.
Chapter 3 leads into the physic part, and main part in which is focused this
project: the hardware design. It is divided into 3 di erent designs, each one of
them related to one basic part of the whole project, that is: submodule design,
measurement board design, and control board design (FPGA and DSP).
Eventually, in chapter 4 are presented the simulation results of the model de-
scribed in point 2.4 and the testing of the boards designed.[-]